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Weaving Alliances with Other Women - Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,447
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Weaving Alliances with Other Women - Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South (Hardcover): Daniel H. Usner

Weaving Alliances with Other Women - Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South (Hardcover)

Daniel H. Usner

Series: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures

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River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally admired for their beauty and workmanship. Recounting friendships that Chitimacha weaver Christine Paul (1874-1946) sustained with two non-Native women at different parts of her life, this book offers a rare vantage point into the lives of American Indians in the segregated South. Mary Bradford (1869-1954) and Caroline Dormon (1888-1971) were not only friends of Christine Paul; they were also patrons who helped connect Paul and other Chitimacha weavers with buyers for their work. Daniel H. Usner uses Paul's letters to Bradford and Dormon to reveal how Indian women, as mediators between their own communities and surrounding outsiders, often drew on accumulated authority and experience in multicultural negotiation to forge new relationships with non-Indian women. Bradford's initial interest in Paul was philanthropic, while Dormon's was anthropological. Both certainly admired the artistry of Chitimacha baskets. For her part, Paul saw in Bradford and Dormon opportunities to promote her basketry tradition and expand a network of outsiders sympathetic to her tribe's vulnerability on many fronts. As Usner explores these friendships, he touches on a range of factors that may have shaped them, including class differences, racial attitudes, and shared ideals of womanhood. The result is an engaging story of American Indian livelihood, identity, and self-determination.

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Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
Release date: October 2015
Authors: Daniel H. Usner
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4848-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Art of indigenous peoples
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-8203-4848-1
Barcode: 9780820348483

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